After six years, a small but meaningful legal victory halts a plan to massively expand Daneros uranium mine, near Bears Ears National Monument. On my first day at the Grand Canyon Trust seven years ...

Utah voters strongly support national monuments in general, and Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in particular, a new poll shows.

The Little Colorado River near the Grand Canyon is a river you should know. Find out why. The Little Colorado River is smaller than the mainstem Colorado River in length, flow, and drainage area. But ...

Native experts weigh in on the history of tribal lands, sovereignty, and what it means to own land. This blog is distilled from the Native Perspectives virtual series held in partnership with Grand ...

Before the Grand Canyon was a national park, it was the ancestral homeland of Native peoples. Hear voices of the Grand Canyon speak. Experience the Grand Canyon alongside Jim Enote (Zuni), Nikki ...

The Information Lab analyzed data from annual aquifer protection reports submitted by the owner of Canyon Mine (also known as Pinyon Plain Mine), a contested uranium mine near the Grand Canyon, and ...

Where does the Colorado River start? How deep is it? Is it drying up? Your questions, answered. The Colorado River flows through the Grand Canyon, bringing lifegiving water to millions, but how much ...

A coalition of Grand Canyon tribes proposed the monument earlier this year to protect about a million acres of their ancestral homelands to the north and south of Grand Canyon National Park, including ...

Got a sunburn? Put some pinyon salve on it. Dandruff? Try some juniper oil. Read more about the cultural uses of pinyon and juniper trees in the Southwest. If you’ve ever visited the Southwest, you’ve ...

The White Mesa uranium mill threatens people and the environment a mile from Bears Ears National Monument. What’s a uranium mill to do when global uranium prices tank? At the White Mesa Mill — on the ...

Hear from Leigh Kuwanwiswma about his Hopi cultural connections to the Grand Canyon. Growing up in the Hopi village of Bacavi on Third Mesa, Leigh Kuwanwisiwma helped plant his family’s cornfields ...

Glen Canyon Dam flooded over 180 miles of the Colorado River to form Lake Powell and provide power. How does the dam work? The presence — or lack — of water has shaped the desert Southwest. Since the ...